CNViewer is a user-friendly tool for analysis and comparison of Copy Number Variation (CNV). It presents several functionalities such as add sensitive (usually clinical/phenotypic) data, export module, selection of genomic region of interest and supports three methods to input data.

CNViewer is an application that runs its core functions entirely on the browser. It is easy to be accessed because no download is necessary. It allows securely use data from local (flexibility only possible with direct participation of the user) or remote database (through Web services able to control data-sharing) files.

With the export module, it is possible to save browser application content and restore it with precision. This file can also become public through a simple hyperlink, because it is an HML.

CNViewer Guide http://sites.google.com/site/cnviewerguide/

There are two versions available

• http://cnviewer.googlecode.com/hg/CNViewer2.0.html - recommended

(Entirely hosted at Google Code, it just can not browse files on the user machine. Only receive data from copy/paste and S3DB)

• http://cnviewer.googlecode.com/hg/index.html

(All functionalities available, points to M D Anderson Cancer Center server)

Developed by Cintia C. Palu * 2009-2010